[isabelle-dev] Towards the next Isabelle release

[Makarius]

On Tue, 4 May 2010, Makarius wrote:

> 5 months after Isabelle2009-1 is a good point to think about the next 
> official release.

A full month has passed since this already, due to the usual unexpected 
problems that show up when doing substantial changes on certain parts 
(notably proof terms).  Since this is now settled, or about to be settled 
shortly, we should be ready for liftoff within the next few days.

This means this is the last call for small consolidations.  NEWS and 
CONTRIBUTORS also require some further care.  As usual, if you are too shy 
to add yourself to CONTRIBUTORS, just send your entries to me or anybody 
else whom you trust to add it to the file.


Just as last time, the point 0 for the release is when the main repository 
is cloned to http://isabelle.in.tum.de/repos/isabelle-release/ for final 
preparations of shipment, which usually takes quite some time.

Further changes to the release branch need to address really serious 
problems, and be presented as clean changesets that can be imported 
without further hassle.  Such changes should *not* be pushed onto the main 
repository after the fork, to prevent confusion due to overlapping copies 
of changesets when the whole is merged back later.


 	Makarius